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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Oct 25, 1999
Free Market Antitrust Immunity Reform (FAIR) Act of 1999 - Amends the Shipping Act of 1984 (the Act) to restore the applicability of the antitrust laws to certain: (1) agreements entered into only among marine terminal operators with respect to an activity to discuss, fix, or regulate rates or other conditions of service and to engage in exclusive, preferential, or cooperative working arrangements; (2) assessment agreements pertaining to such conditions of service or arrangements; (3) agreements or activities that relate to transportation services within or between foreign countries unless they have a direct, substantial, and reasonably foreseeable effect on U.S. commerce; (4) agreements or activities concerning the foreign inland segment of through transportation that is part of transportation provided in a U.S. import or export trade; (5) agreements or activities to provide or furnish wharfage, dock, warehouse, or other terminal facilities outside the United States; and (6) agreements, modifications, or cancellations approved by the Federal Maritime Commission before the effective date of the Act, or permitted under the Act, and any properly published tariff, rate, fare, or charge, classification, rule, or regulation explanatory thereof implementing that agreement, modification, or cancellation.
People & committees
Rep. Hyde, Henry J. [R-IL-6] · R–IL
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Committee Hearings Held.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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